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Excerpt from Faith’s diary: “This evening did some ironing and helped G. with her English. I have just about decided to let my hair grow for who can stand $1.25 for a hair cut? I do the girls’ so save some there.” Andrea Kaston Tange

Filling the silences in family stories − how to think like a historian to uncover your family’s narrative

You can uncover the depths and hidden details of your own family’s unspoken narratives by thinking like an archival researcher writing an ‘investigative memoir.’
Grandparents grieve for their child and their stillborn grandchild, a grief we need to acknowledge. from www.shutterstock.com

When a baby is stillborn, grandparents are hit with ‘two lots of grief’. Here’s how we can help

The world’s first study of how grandmothers experience the death of their stillborn grandchild exposes a unique kind of grief. But there are many ways we can support them.

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